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I forgot the tame Cattle Egret that lives on clubhouse chips

We played 4 - Silves, La Pinta, Gramacho and then Vila Sol yesterday as it’s on the way to the airport (we usually stay in Alvor). A few hills but not too dramatic really - just enough to have some lovely elevated tees.

Dozens on the golf courses I played there this week.........................also saw a Purple Heron

Lots of reports and pictures online of a (very rare for here) Citrine Wagtail at Widewater Lagoon yesterday...................

Regularly seen at Pulborough Brooks as mentioned above…..worth a visit

Project is IoW based - good info here https://www.forestryengland.uk/blog/white-tailed-eagle-project-october-2023-update Knepp storks have hatched too https://whitestorkproject.org/live-cam-feed/

I’m finding the stork live webcam feed from Knepp strangely fascinating……….can’t be long before they hatch now…. https://whitestorkproject.org/live-cam-feed/

Interesting shift in garden species over the last couple of years....still have multitudes of Blue, Great and long-tailed tits, robins, nuthatches, blackbirds, GSWs, a wren and suchlike but now have multiple daily visits from several Goldfinches (a pair we were seeing occasionally presumably...

Fish-gorging bastards 🤬

Spent ten minutes last week during a quiet fishing session watching a Barn Owl first catch something not more than 25 yards away, then get chased by a Kestrel for quite a while before ducking down between some vehicles until the Kestrel went away, then slowly emerging from the hiding place only...

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Ouse.....

There are at least a couple of resident Kingfisher pairs on the stretch of river I fish regularly and another on one of the lakes locally..........not managed to get a pic yet as they flash by way too fast !

Red Kites definitely becoming more common....quite often see them now when out running (very rare for me until the last 3-4 years) particulalry on the North side of the Downs escarpment it seems, and we've got one quite close to home that I've seen several times (Nr Wivelsfield Village for those...